Wednesday, April 13, 2005

Seeing that one of the MIT gentlemen involved had a dating profile posted, I sent them the following email:

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Dear Max and Jeremy,

Several of my colleagues have been shocked to discover that they have co-authored papers with me, apparently while sleepwalking or [in] some other state of consciousness. For this enjoyment, I have donated $5 to your travel fund.

While a number of the titles are vague enough to pass for psychology topics, I wistfully wish you had another [generator] that had psychology content.

Free, unrequested advice: as far as those dating endeavors are concerned, I strongly recommend seeking out grad students in your local psychology department (I'm assuming heterosexuality here, I realize). For one thing, psychology is becoming female-dominated.

Furthermore, for some reason it seems to be a natural match--a large proportion of the women in my program (including me!) are dating / marrying / married to someone who is involved in applied or theoretical engineering / programming type fields.

Thanks a lot for the pledge and the good advice. Our colleague Dan inparticular could use both a psychologist and a date, so this adviceshould come in handy. If you have any friends at the MIT psychologydepartment, be sure to put in a good word.